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Bug #5961

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regular expression positive look-behind

Added by kbourque@sbcglobal.net (Anthony Bourque) about 12 years ago. Updated about 12 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
ruby -v:
1.9.3p0
Backport:
[ruby-core:42326]

Description

irb(main):001:0> input = " \t Jeffs "
=> " \t Jeffs "
irb(main):002:0> input.gsub(%r{(?<=\bJeff)(?=s\b)},"'")
SyntaxError: (irb):2: invalid pattern in look-behind: /(?<=\bJeff)(?=s\b)/
from E:/Ruby/Ruby193/bin/irb:12:in `'
irb(main):003:0>

This is a valid regular expression which should produce " \t Jeff's ". It seems to have a problem with the \b in the look-behind.

Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) about 12 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Assigned
  • Assignee changed from kbourque@sbcglobal.net (Anthony Bourque) to naruse (Yui NARUSE)

Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) about 12 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Closed

Fixed by mergin Onigmo 5.13.1 in Ruby 2.0.

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